An old man and a young woman.
The old man was Vast Righteousness Child, and the young woman was Yu Jiaolong.
These were the two Nascent Soul Cultivators Hua Mei had told Luo Chen were being used as living test subjects for medicine on Cangwu Mountain.
As it happened, Luo Chen knew them both.
He was especially close to Vast Righteousness Child. Back then, they had even felt like friends despite the gap in their ages.
But Luo Chen was no longer so concerned about that.
Nether Spring had sent word that Qixia Yuanjun was awake and would summon him in three days.
A summons from a legendary great power was something Luo Chen had to approach with utmost caution.
His caution was hardly unwarranted. Beings at that level could never be judged by ordinary standards.
Luo Chen had dealt with few Spirit Transformation Great Powers in his life, only two or three.
He had seen Li Canghai, the Formation Dao great power of the Northern Sea, from afar. Li Canghai cared nothing for the struggle between humans and demons, seeking only to seize mountains and seas to refine a Spirit Treasure. Strictly speaking, that did not count as dealing with him.
But the other two had left a deep impression on Luo Chen.
Pill Saint Chu Yan had given him a Heavenly Secret Pill upon ascending, despite their having little connection. Chu Yan had refined only five Heavenly Secret Pills in total. What claim did Luo Chen, who had no deep ties to him, have to one of them?
Kindness offered without cause was hard to fathom. But Chu Yan had ascended, and their paths would never cross again, so Luo Chen simply took him for a kind man.
Black Marsh of Ming Abyss had tried to recruit Luo